the past two days, we have been doing a lot of errands. yesterday we went to the pao de azucar (sugar loaf) during sunset, and the views were amazing! me and kavitha staked out the best spot in the lookout area for about half an hour, and between us, took about 30 pictures of the sunset (i took about 25 of those. :$) on top of that, we saw our first brown people - a couple from india! SWEEEEEET!
similarly, i also discovered the 16:9 setting on my camera too, so hopefully you will see some nice panoramic shots of rio soon.
at night, we met camilla again for dinner at the lagoa, a big lagoon in the middle of the city. the atmosphere was something like centre island in toronto, with bikes you could rent and lots of carnival and churro type stands. we tried our first caipirinha (a lime alcoholic drink in brazil, or maybe just rio?) and then had a bunch of traditional food: deep fried salted fish balls, brazillian grilled beef, deep fried couscous, mushed up beans with bacon, and camilla made some brigadiero (chocolate + condensed milk). SO DELICIOUS! there is definitely a lot of deep frying and meat in brazillian cuisine. and fruit.
this morning, we got our bus tickets to curitiba (a 12 hour bus ride) and unfortunately we did not get the leita seats (i.e. full reclining seats), we got some semi-reclining seats for our overnight trip. hopefully we will be ok to sleep!
other things - in terms of me and kavitha getting along, i think we are complementary travel buddies. no problems! both of us are not big beach people, we are constant snackers, we are always sweating, and when we are both tired, we are quiet! it works out really well. :D
oh and last thing - there are a TON of vw beetles here, so there has been some major punch buggy action! WOOOOT! (and sore arms)
later, gators!
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where are the pictures??!! ombrigato!
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